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@tagesschau_eil@mastodon.social
2025-12-14 09:49:11

📢 Schusswaffenangriff am Bondi Beach in Australien - offenbar Tote und Verletzte
Bei einem Angriff auf eine Feier zum jüdischen Lichterfest Chanukka sind am berühmten Bondi Beach in Sydney offenbar mehrere Menschen durch Schüsse verletzt worden. Es gibt auch Berichte über Tote. Die Polizei nahm zwei Personen fest. Der Polizeieinsatz laufe noch, hieß es. Die Bevölkerung wurde aufgerufen, das Gebiet zu meiden.
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@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2026-01-14 22:00:09

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,027 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 4.79 %

Die Grafik zeigt ab 01.01.2026 die tägliche Stromerzeugung als Balkendiagramm.
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-01-13 21:33:25

(YouTube) Samarth by Hyundai: The vOICe vision BCI in India youtube.com/watch?v=qtgpoT3eff Will Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision ever work for congenitally blind people? Probably not.

Snapshot from video with Pranav Lal - congenitally blind user of The vOICe vision BCI in India
@morituri@berlin.social
2025-11-12 22:04:45

Luise Königin von Preußen als Südseeschönheit 🌺🙂
Die Büste von Luise im Schlosspark Charlottenburg ist jeden Tag anders gestylt – und das schon seit Jahren!
Ich hatte bisher noch nicht das Glück, den/die Stylist:in zu treffen.
Luise Königin von Preußen (✶ 10. 03. 1776 – † 19. 07.1810)
#Fotogalerie

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-10-15 03:00:07

jester: Jester joke ratings (2001)
Two bipartite networks of users and jokes, extracted from the online joke recommender system Jester. A user connects to all jokes for which that user entered a rating. Edge weights give the rating score, scaled from -10 to 10. The two files differ by how many joke nodes are included, 100 or 150.
This network has 73521 nodes and 4136360 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Weighted

jester: Jester joke ratings (2001). 73521 nodes, 4136360 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/jester
@ThatHoarder@mastodon.online
2025-12-13 11:22:06

In episode 207 I share advice from six former podcast guests on what they do to improve or maintain their own mental health. Hear what Harriet Impey thinks is "bonkersly brilliant"
#MentalHealth #mindfulness

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-14 08:51:25
Content warning:

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wodensday! 🐺🐺
"Another great abode is there, which is named Valaskjšlf. Odin possesses that dwelling. The gods made it and thatched it with sheer silver, and in this hall is the Hliðskjšlf, the high seat so called. Whenever Allfather sits in that seat, he surveys all lands."
Prose Edda, Gylfaginning
🏛 Odin on his thro…

Photo of the so-called Odin from Lejre, a small cast silver figurine from Lejre in Denmark. It depicts an individual on a throne, wearing a floor-length dress, an apron, four bead necklaces, a neck ring, a cloak and a rim-less hat. Two birds are seated on the armrests and the back of the throne features the heads of two animals. The figurine has inlay of black niello (a black coloured alloy) and some gilding.
The figurine can be interpreted as the god Odin sitting on his throne Hliðskjálf, fro…
@funkvolk@mastodon.social
2025-12-12 12:55:04

"Verbrenner-Aus"

Nathan Fillion wanting to say something, then deciding otherwise
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
2025-12-11 12:44:40

My teen just got to experience enshitification first hand:

@thijs_lucas@norden.social
2025-12-12 07:13:44

Das #RND berichtet von der Gerichtsverhandlung zu einer tödlichen Kollision zwischen Fehmarn und Kiel. Die Rahmenbedingungen klingen sehr unspektakulär: kein Alkohol am Steuer, alle drei am Geschehen Beteiligten, das Opfer, der Täter und ein Lkw-Fahrer, fuhren deutlich unterhalb der zulässigen Höchstgeschwindigkeit. Telefonate zur Tatzeit wurden ausgeschlossen. Die Ursache bleibt dabei unklar.
D…

Zu hohes Tempo als Unfallursache ausgeschlossen
Zu hohes Tempo schloss ein Gutachter aus. Der Unfallverursacher fuhr mit 60 bis 65 Kilometern pro Stunde. Die beiden anderen Beteiligten fuhren mit Tempo 65 beziehungsweise 78. An dieser Stelle sind 100 Kilometer in der Stunde erlaubt.
Mann stirbt an schweren Kopfverletzungen
Der Wagen des jungen Mannes geriet ins Schleudern und prallte gegen einen Lkw, der hinter dem Ford fuhr. Der Mann erlag auf der Stelle seinen schweren Kopfverletzungen.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-01-11 15:43:40

I had dough in the freezer from last weekend and made a small batch of cookies. Chocolate with dark chocolate chips & salted caramel chips with a sprinkle of salt on top. I love these!

Cookies
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2026-01-13 17:59:07

Three US prosecutors quit their jobs after being pressed to investigate the widow of Renee Good. The failure to investigate the ICE agent shooter was involved.
#uspol #ReneeGood #ICE

@wischekurier@mastodon.social
2025-11-14 02:45:46

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 14-11-2025 03:40
Temperatur: (min: 10,6C) 10,7C (max: 11,6C)
Feuchte: 99%
Luftdruck: 1010,3 hPa (langsam fallend)
Windrichtung: N/A Grad

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-01-13 10:00:29

livejournal_aminer: Livejournal social graph
This network contains the social graph of Livejournal, a free on-line social network where users can keep a blog, journal or diary, where a directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 3017286 nodes and 87037567 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

livejournal_aminer: Livejournal social graph. 3017286 nodes, 87037567 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/livejournal_aminer
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social
2025-12-11 12:12:46

🏆 And the #4CultureMusicAward goes to...
#AidaAmiryanStein (Universität Paderborn) für ihr „Neues Thüringer Choralbuch digital" in der Kategorie „Studierendenprojekte” und an #ChristophHust

4. NFDI4Culture Music Award - Illustration mit farbigen, geometrischen Formen für den 4. NFDI4Culture Music Award" CC0 Creator: Sarah Pittroff
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-13 21:11:10
Content warning:

A friend who is a teacher claimed that LLMs can write consistent plots now and are allegedly used for stories in textbooks or course material in language learning classes.
I find that quite hard to believe because in my limited experience, what information the #LLM will "remember" is quite random and it will just make stuff up if it "forgot", i.e. it doesn't matter if I…

@doktrock@toad.social
2026-01-11 19:00:43

Hoar frost the other day #SilentSunday

Tree twigs coated mostly on one side with spiky ice crystals
@seav@en.osm.town
2025-12-05 09:22:30

Since it is the season, please enjoy this wonderful bit of pedanticism. 🎵
#Christmas #grammar

@brichapman@mastodon.social
2025-11-14 23:43:00

🌿 Oxford’s TIDE Centre launches the Nature’s Intelligence Studio at #COP30 — turning 3.4 billion years of evolution into solutions for today’s climate and energy challenges. Innovation inspired by the Amazon, for the planet. 🌍✨

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-04 13:09:33

AI and the railway mania
Michael Roberts.
"A widely cited study from MIT found that so far, 95 per cent of generative AI projects produce no return in productivity growth or profits. To justify the required investment, annual data-centre revenues would need to rise from $20bn today to about $2trn.  Existing revenues will fall short by $800bn.."

@grist@fosstodon.org
2025-12-11 09:03:14

Come hear Grist co-CEO speak at #fost #apidays very soon!

11am dragonnier 5
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
2025-11-07 10:40:17

A wild goat has got bored with the Cheviot Hills and has decided to go on a side quest to Berwick-upon-Tweed and it is ALL GO on Local Facebook.

post about the goat
reel about the goat, stab me on the patio.
@UrbanNature@nerdculture.de
2025-11-01 09:45:43

Alle Achtung: Zur Rettung des "EmmausWald in #Berlin #Neukölln gibt es jetzt eine Soli-Compilation. Bands spendeten für den Erhalt des Waldes je einen Song, darunter Namen wie #PetShopBoys, …

Habicht auf einem Ast im Emmauswald sitzend. Die Bäume sind ohne Blätter.
@weddingweiser@berlin.social
2025-12-01 09:00:11

So arbeiten wir beim Weddingweiser weddingweiser.de/so-arbeiten-w

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-13 08:32:18
Content warning:

Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka #Tyrsday 🗡️
"You must know victory-runes
if you want to know victory. Carve them
into your sword's hilt, on the blade guards
and the blades, invoking Tyr's name twice."
Poetic Edda, Sigrdrífumšl
🏛 Gold bracteate from Trollhättan,

Gold bracteate depicting a person receiving a bite on the hand from a beast, which may depict Týr and Fenrir. The person has long hair and wears a short, thigh-length garment. In thei hand that isn't in the beast's mouth they hold an object.
@Jackobli@mastodon.social
2025-11-11 01:37:15

Hmm, was heisst «sprechen»? Auf welchem Level?
Schweizer sprechen übrigens spätestens ab Primarschulstufe schon zwei Sprachen, schweizerdeutsch und Schriftsprache.
srf.ch/news/schweiz/kognitives

Screenshot des Headers des verlinkten Artikels.

Kognitives Altern
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Wer mehrere Sprachen spricht, altert langsamer
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-12-14 13:53:00

Interesting. The right wing bots today are pushing “do something about mental illness” instead of “don’t take away my guns”.
Lines up with the rumors of MAHA “rehabilitation farms”

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-12 01:35:47

Sources: Versant, the NBCUniversal spinoff, is exploring a sale of its youth sports management app SportsEngine; NBC bought SportsEngine in 2016 (Sara Germano/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/co

@andycarolan@social.lol
2025-12-11 14:20:49

Get in my belly!
#coffee

@jtk@infosec.exchange
2025-10-30 14:27:40

More legacy edu space likely to be used for hosting.
Not immediately obvious who or what steel-axis is to me, and who they represent. They have a virtual business address in Delaware, a gmail email, and a RIR database contact address in Israel. RIPE-based LIR that has gotten a number of transfers over the years, usually ending up being used by India-based HostRoyale.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-11-15 01:00:13

People were worried fall color wouldn't be good this year but I think it turned out great
#photo #photography #oak #fall

Three small oak leaves with coarse edges are lined in red and hang from a twig that runs down from left to right and behind that more blurred out leaves of the same kind in the background and addition to dark, green and brown spots.
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us
2025-11-09 23:12:23

Time to figure out why, lets starts with a: docker system prune:

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-14 20:15:17
Content warning:

First guest post on my website by the expert on German folk tales @… ☺️
Jürgen explains the Wild Hunt phenomenon, what the tales have in common, introduces the leaders of the hunt, and reveals why the spirits are on the move at all:

@seav@en.osm.town
2025-12-06 05:55:18

I just learned that Frank Gehry passed away. 😔
nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/de
One of his buildings that I hope to visit is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 🇪🇸. I looked at the list of buildings he designed and the only o…

Elevated view of buildings to the south of Berlin’s Pariser Platz, from left to right: the Axica Convention Center (previously the DZ Bank Building), the United States Embassy Chancery, and Haus Somner. The Brandenburg Gate is partially seen on the right side of the photo.
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social
2025-11-10 12:46:34

@… What a thing of beauty! cbc.ca/life/food/cranberry-app

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-04 08:53:21

"Cough into your bent elbow, or use a tissue and dispose of it afterwards in the nearest bin."
I find it astonishing how many people don't bother, or don't know about this elementary precaution.
How to avoid catching flu, COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses this winter  – UK Health Security Agency

@n8foo@macaw.social
2026-01-07 19:45:18

Hair cap moss, seen at Pickett State Park in Tennessee #mosstodon

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-12-05 06:35:19

Stay warm out there 🧣

Photo of a fluffy cat being held while it wears a tiny, red winter poof ball hat made of yarn.

The European Union, overcoming deep dissension among its members,
gave the green light to a sweeping trade pact with four South American countries on Friday
that would create one of the largest free-trade zones in the world,
connecting markets with more than 700 million people.
The agreement offers a stark contrast to the amped-up aggression on display this week from the Trump administration.
As Europe worked to extend an era of economic collaboration,
th…

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-12-14 00:14:14

NoVA pizza index high

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-13 10:01:11
Content warning:

Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"The Egyptians say that Demeter [Isis] and Dionysos [Osiris] are the rulers of the lower world. The Egyptians were the first who maintained the following doctrine, too, that the human soul is immortal, and at the death of the body enters into some other living thing then coming to birth"
Herodotus, Histories 2.12…

This is an Attic red-figured calyx-krater with a representation of Dionysos and Nike. A Satyr and himation-wearing youths (not shown), wish a happy life and defeat of death.
@edintone@mastodon.green
2025-12-10 07:56:13

Rare chance to see Jane Austen’s will in Love Letters exhibition nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2026-01-06 03:38:48

Merry Christmas to me.
#dogma #amazonwomenonthemoon #humor

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-14 10:19:34
Content warning:

It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"O daughter, to take the juices of herbs and spices, which the great god Helios Mithras ordered to be revealed to me by his archangel, so that I alone may ascend into heaven as an inquirer and behold the universe."
Line …

This (reverse) face of the monument depicts a banquet scene. In the middle, a bull's hide, of which the head and one hindleg are visible. Sol and Mithras recline on it side by side. Mithras holds a torch in his left hand and extends his right hand behind Sol. Sol is dressed only in a cape, fastened on his right shoulder with a fibula. Around Sol's head is a crown of eleven rays. He holds a whip in his left hand and extends the right towards a torchbearer who offers him a rhyton. In the lower ri…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-12-06 22:20:22

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
TEAGUE: [V.O.] No response... circuit three...
[Teague is still trying to operate the device. The hatch starts to slide open]
blake.torpidity.net/m/102/523 B7B6

Claude Sonnet 4 describes the image as: "I can see this is a close-up shot of a middle-aged man with dark hair wearing what appears to be a dark blue or navy colored uniform or shirt. The image has the visual quality typical of British television from the 1970s or early 1980s, with that characteristic film grain and color saturation of the era. The lighting and framing suggest this is from a dramatic scene, possibly a science fiction or action television series. The man has a serious, contempla…
@seav@en.osm.town
2025-12-05 23:03:01

🇪🇸 🇮🇪 🇸🇮 🇳🇱 👍

@samerfarha@mastodon.social
2026-01-06 18:40:50

The light has been unreal the last few days. Here’s some pictures from Harpa…

A statue of a man playing the cello stands in front of a building with a geometric facade, surrounded by mist and illuminated by warm lighting.
This image shows the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík, Iceland, with its distinctive facade of multicolored glass panels illuminated against a clear blue sky.
The same facade reflect in the pool in front of Harpa, distorted by light wind
@weddingweiser@berlin.social
2025-12-01 06:30:11

Kiez-Moment: Wellness im Wedding weddingweiser.de/kiez-moment-w

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-11-14 14:44:46

I used a speech to text program today to type “Shirley” and it entered “Surely”
#airplane

i am serious leslie nielsen GIF
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-04 07:45:21

Marches against genocide in Palestine twice described as "hate marches", without challenge, on #BBC radio 4 #today this morning.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-14 18:19:23
Content warning:

Meet this hoarder of fannies from Nîmes, France 👌
#FannyFriday
#GreekRomanArt #ReliefWednesday

Engraving of a Roman bas relief found on a monument at Nîmes, France in 1825. It shows a crested bird creature with a penis-shaped tail with a belled. It sits upon a nest of egg-like vulvas.
@jtk@infosec.exchange
2025-10-29 19:50:39

This is not the first time for #Microsoft #DNS-related problems. As I recall, the first one I remember from 2001 had something to do with their authoritative name servers residing on the same IP4 /24 that had an access or availability problem.
It was a rookie mistake even then, and they were …

@tagesschau_eil@mastodon.social
2025-11-28 15:46:25

📢 Selenskyjs Bürochef tritt wegen Korruptionsermittlungen zurück
Nach einer Hausdurchsuchung der ukrainischen Antikorruptionsbehörden ist der Leiter des Präsidialbüros, Jermak, zurückgetreten. Das teilte Staatschef Selenskyj mit.
➡️ tagesschau.de…

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-14 08:55:20
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 186
🏛 #Venus statuette from

Bronze Venus statuette with gold jewellery from Pompeii. The goddess is touching the golden anklet on her left foot, maybe about to put it on or take it off. She also wears golden arm rings on both arms. Her lips have been painted red or given a layer of copper. She wears her hair in a top bow updo. Below her anklets, there are finely crafted sandals on her feet.
@seav@en.osm.town
2025-12-05 18:46:31

“The most consistent predictors of AI use across studies were aversive personality traits (e.g., Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy), albeit the traits were differentially associated with AI use across studies.”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/409774

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-11-13 21:11:32

Gotta hand it to Bezos and Blue Origin - they stuck the landing on the first try. And the orbiter is looking good.
#BlueOrigin #NewGlenn #NewGlenn2

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-13 08:57:29
Content warning:

It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Men say that the marriage of Zeus and Hera was held in the territory of the Knossians, near the river Theren, where now a temple stands in which the natives of the place annually offer holy sacrifices and imitate the ceremony of the marriage, in the manner in which tradition tells it was originally performed."
Diod…

Marble votive relief to Zeus and Hera. The relief is framed on the right by a pillar with base and capital supporting an entablature crowned by a flat roof composed of tiles. The left side of the relief has been broken off. A bearded Zeus wears a himation wrapped to leave his chest bare. He has a long pointed beard and his long hair is gathered up into a bun at the back of his head. Zeus faces left and extends a phiale (shallow bowl) towards another figure, now missing. The only evidence of thi…
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-03 14:21:38

"Drunk raccoon found passed out on liquor store floor after breaking in"

Trump appearing to doze.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-appears-doze-cabinet-36341773
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-01-10 21:07:04

Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration? news.keckmedicine.org/can-a-re using a stem cell-derived patch. A Phase IIb randomized, multicenter trial of subretinal CPCB-RPE1 in advanced dry AMD …

@weddingweiser@berlin.social
2025-11-30 06:30:09

Mittel für den Leopoldplatz bleiben erhalten weddingweiser.de/mittel-fuer-d

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-12-04 03:18:36

A sufficiently comfy cat is indistinguishable from genAI :neocat_confused:

Photo by Bitter_Sir4188 (reddit) of their sleeping cat laying upsidedown and twisted on a pile of clothes. Her head slipped down and the only parts identifiable on the kitty is two paws and part of a hind quarter. It took me a long time to figure out which way the cat was even laying, and even then I have questions.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2025-11-14 08:09:02

#Retröt
#Stürme, #Starkregen und #Hagel richten in Deutschland große Schäden an. 2018 veru…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 23:51:59

🎲 TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
#llm

Figure 1: Comparison of cumulative regret trends for four LLMs: 
(a) Llama-3.1-8B regret trends: Exhibits high cumulative regret, suggesting poor adaptation to feedback over time. (b) Phi-2 regret trends: Maintains consistently high regret levels, indicating limited learning from outcomes (c) Qwen3-4B regret trends: Displays rapid reduction in regret, reflecting strong and consistent decision making (d) Qwen3-8B regret trends : Consistently high regret across prompts, indicating overthinking an…
@jtk@infosec.exchange
2025-10-27 18:00:39

#Hosting provider Oneprovider (#AS136258) is introducing some new "high performance" OneCould plans and increasing the price on existing ones. Price increases range from about 12%-25% beginning November 15, 2025.
They do not cite energy costs as the driving reason for the price c…

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-03 14:05:17

But not a whisper about reparations for the colonised, expropriated and exploited global South.
European Commission plans ‘reparations loan’ to Ukraine
theguardian.com/world/2025/dec

@weddingweiser@berlin.social
2025-11-29 14:55:36

Die beste Nummer für einen Firmennamen: 65💘
Müllerstr. /Schöningstraße
📷 @…
#meinwedding #berlinwedding #wedding65

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-03 12:21:07

Colombia’s Petro invites Trump to cocaine lab demolition amid attack threat | Drugs News | Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/3/c

@jtk@infosec.exchange
2025-10-27 15:15:31

1 geek points if you spot the problem with this form

Web form with two fields.  First first is labeled "EMAIL ADDRESS", second field is labeled "CONFIRM EMAIL ADDRESS".  Both fields have example text of: email@website.com
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-03 09:04:26

"Spending as a share of GDP is pretty well where it was at the end of the last government. This government had reversed the additional austerity the last government had pencilled in, but once you allow for trends in health spending and debt interest the substantial reduction in the level of public service provision that we saw under fourteen years of Tory rule has not and will not be significantly reversed."
mainly macro:

@tagesschau_eil@mastodon.social
2025-12-18 20:15:56

📢 Abschluss von Mercosur-Handelsabkommen soll verschoben werden
EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen verschiebt ihre Pläne für eine Unterzeichnung des Mercosur-Handelsabkommens mit den südamerikanischen Staaten. Das berichten mehrere Nachrichtenagenturen übereinstimmend. Ursprünglich hätte das Abkommen am Samstag unterschrieben werden sollen.
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@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2026-01-13 01:46:14

In the first attack on a speedboat in September 2025, Trump and Hegseth used a military plane made up to look civilian. That’s a war crime called “perfidy”. (Free link)
#uspol #usnavy #uscg

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-12 08:29:51
Content warning:

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Mundilferi is he who began the moon,
And fathered the flaming sun;
The round of heaven each day they run,
To tell the time for men."
Poetic Edda, Vafþrúðnismšl, stanza 23
🎨 Mšni, God of the Moon by ChrissaBug

Drawing of the god Máni, the Old Norse god of the moon in a sexy pose. He has long blond hair and wears a leather harness across his chest. A transparent blue scarf is wound around his arms.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-12 19:15:27
Content warning:

Sea nymphs are smooth like fish 😜 👌
#FannyFriday

Close-up of a mosaic of a sea nymph's crotch, showing a smooth, depilated pubic triangle.
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-02 20:37:19

Bad news from America.
In Honduras the left's candidate has been defeated, bringing an end to a progressive term.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/2/t

@jtk@infosec.exchange
2025-10-25 08:20:13

This is the fourth block, smaller than the others, but noticeably unique USA source to Saudi Telecom in the past few days. Is there a story here?
social.bgp.tools/@transfers/st

@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2026-01-12 23:12:58

Based on the pizza index and something on ADS-B site, I believe the US is attacking Syria again.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-12 11:34:21
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Sokrates: Well, and is not Eros, the son of Aphrodite, a god?"
Plato, Phaedrus
🏛 #Aphrodite and #Eros, Terracotta statue, Arcelogical Museum of Catalunya

Terracotta statue of Aphrodite and Eros. Aphrodite is seated, a himation draped around her legs. Eros is depicted as a young boy, standing next to her, his arms wrapped around his mother's neck. He is smiling as he kisses her. Aphrodite holds him, her hand resting on his back, just below the wings.
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-02 17:05:21

David #Lammy,
“Trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement. Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea.”
And,
<<I have principles. If they are inconvenient, I have others,>>
Why is the UK scaling back jury trials, and why is it controversial? | Civil Rights News | Al Jazeera

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-13 06:53:47
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King Midas regrets his wish...
#PhallusThursday
#GreekRomanArt #antiquidons @…

Roman gold amulet of a phallus below a pubic triangle with well-crafted pubic curls. It seems to be a flaccid phallus with a long, tapered foreskin, the beauty ideal at the time.
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2025-12-12 18:12:37

iOS 26.2 just dropped

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-02 13:44:39

All the warmongering is doing its job, increasing revenue and profits for the military industrial complex.
Record revenues for world's biggest arms companies, says new report | Morning Star
morningstaronline.co.uk/articl

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-12 09:00:30
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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"When Mercurius first made the lyre on Mount Cyllene . . . Apollo took the lyre, and is said to have taught Orpheus on it, and after he himself had invented the cithara, he gave the lyre to Orpheus."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.7
🏛

Orpheus and Eurydice marble relief of the Augustan period (27 BCE – 14 CE), which was found in a seaside villa in the district of Sora, at Torre del Greco (Naples). It shows the last farewell between Orpheus and Eurydice.
On the left side there is Hermes who, with the left hand, accompanies Eurydice holding her by the arm. Eurydice is depicted with a low-necked peplos (dress) and a himation (cloak) covering partially her head, in the act of receding and turning back. Her left hand is on the sh…
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-02 09:35:20

As in Britain, Ireland is losing its pubs.
Un mundo en peligro de extinción: por qué estšn desapareciendo los pubs irlandeses
eldiario.es/internacional/prob

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-02 09:11:39

'Just put on a helmet' - Pope's scooter advice to England.
I saw this headline on my feed and thought goodness me, what's the pontiff wading into now? and "sound advice before we ban these things".
But no it's just some bloke called Pope and his cricket mates.
b…

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-02 13:36:54

It's good that this alliance, against the #POX of fascism and xenophobia has come together..But if all they are doing is planning a demo, in London, in March, it will be wasted effort.
New Together Alliance can help resist the growing forces of division and racism | Morning Star

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-02 09:26:45

Critical minerals dropped from final text at COP30
news.mongabay.com/short-articl

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-02 09:22:20

#Jeavons
Don’t Forget to Ask: What Happens to the Savings? - resilience
resilience.org/stories/2025-11

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-11 11:17:21
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It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"The sun from the south, the moon's companion,
her right hand cast about the heavenly horses.
The sun knew not where she a dwelling had,
the moon knew not what power he possessed,
the stars knew not where t…

A photograph of the Trundholm Sun Chariot, a Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark. It is a depiction of the sun chariot, a bronze statue of a horse and a large golden bronze disk, both of which are placed on a device with spoked wheels.
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-01 15:35:15

I'm no fan of ecocidal, economically illiterate Reeves, but this current """news""" story about misleading statements on the black hole is pure theatre, pure distraction.
Move on.
#UKLabour #UKPol

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-11 18:26:02
@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-12-01 20:25:52

Bennett argues that there is a distinctive Green political philosophy, distinct from but sharing many characteristics with socialism.
In my view the claim is problematic, as I explain in this review.
‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review | Steady State Manchester

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-11 21:13:57
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Ares, the shield-stabber, rose up against Athene with the brazen spear in his hand, and spoke a word of revilement: ‘Why once more, you dogfly, have you stirred up trouble among the gods with the blast of your blown fury, and the pride of your heart driving you?’"
Homer, Iliad 21.391
🏛 Black-figure vase painting of the Birth of Athena, 540 BCE
📸 La Fuente Egeria

Two-handled jar (amphora) depicting the birth of Athena.

Athena, the patron goddess of Athens, was said to have been born fully grown from the head of Zeus. Here, Zeus sits on his throne holding his thunderbolt, as the goddess springs from his head in full armour. Hephaistos, who is usually present with the axe he used to split his father's skull, is absent, but Hermes and Apollo look on at left, and at right Ares and a goddess, possibly Aphrodite, observe the miraculous birth.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-10 14:03:31
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Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
Is there a Norse god who fills a similar role to Dionysos?
The Norse did not have theatre nor wine. There is no god of mead or beer as far as I know. There is no god or goddess of festivities I think but I'm happy to be proven wrong!
🏛

Glass cameo depicting a Satyr holding a cluster of grapes out towards the child Dionysos. The scene is in white on dark blue. The satyr is seated with a column atop which stands a statue of goat-legged Pan behind him, playing his pan pipes. A small tree rises behind little Dionysos.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-10 15:38:36
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179
🏛️ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection

Charming little bronze figure depicting the moon goddess Selene with a huge lunar crescent on her head and her iconic billowing cloak and torch. An appealing dark green patina covers the figurine.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-09 22:44:46
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Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka #FriggsDay aka Friday.
"Frigg, I believe,
knows all that happens,
although she says it not."
Freyja in Lokasenna
🏛 Frigg or Valkyrie, Tuna, Alsike, Uppland, Sweden
#DayOfAphrodite

Metal image with traces of gilding of Frigg or a Valkyrie. She has a long braid and what might be earrings. Around her upper body there is a shawl or cloak and she wears a long dress with a short train and decorations that look to me like tablet-woven bands.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-09 17:27:55
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-09 13:27:19
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More sport in the new year! 👌
#PhallusThursday #FannyFriday
@…

Fragment of a terracotta oil lamp depicting an erotic scene of a man and a woman having sex. She is on her hands and knee, one leg held up by her partner. She looks over her shoulder back at him. He is on his knees, holding her leg by the ankle over his head, his phallus visible between her spread lips.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-08 11:25:58
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday! ⚡
"Then did Thrym say,
Thurses' ruler:
'To gain the bride,
bear in the hammer.
Lay now Miolnir
in the maiden's lap.
Make us husband and wife
by the hand of Var.'"
Þryms…

Bronze figurine of a seated figure, about 6.7 cm, from about AD 1000 that was recovered at the Eyrarland farm in the area of Akureyri, Iceland. The artwork was made around 1000 CE and may depict the Norse god Thor. If the figure is correctly identified as Thor, Thor is holding his hammer, Mjölnir, sculpted in a typically Icelandic cross-like shape. It has been suggested that the statue is related to a scene from the Poetic Edda poem Thrymskvida (Þrymskviða) where Thor recovers his hammer while …